Mercury Tokyo

Mercury Tokyo is a Japanese record label founded in 1952. The company's name was later changed to Nippon Mercury in 1953, however, the Mercury label started to be handled by <a href="https://kpopping.com/company/King-Records">King Records</a> in 1957, and later by Nippon Victor. It was relaunched in 1970 by Nippon Victor and Matsushita Corporation, as Nippon Phonogram. It operated several Phonogram labels in Japan. In 1993, it became a division of PolyGram K.K. (now <a href="https://kpopping.com/company/Universal-Music-Japan">Universal Music Japan</a>). In 1995, it was relaunched as Mercury Music Entertainment. It later merged with Kitty Records in 2000 and became Kitty MME. Half of it was merged into the Universal J label in 2002, the other half became known as <a href="https://kpopping.com/company/Universal-Sigma">Universal Sigma</a> in 2004. In 2017 it changed it's name to Mercury Tokyo, under the <a href="https://kpopping.com/company/Universal-Music-Group">Universal Music Group</a> and Brands division of Universal Music Japan. As of 2022, the label, currently operating under UMJ's <a href="https://kpopping.com/company/EMI-Records">EMI Records</a> division.